Release Date: April 4, 2025 catalog # 202505 UPC: 199066792117

“UNEARTHED” (approved by Tom Mitchell, Garvin’s friend and executor of his will) is perhaps the last album by Tom Garvin, my friend, colleague, and the first and initial artist for ITI Records who contributed much to the early days of the label and to the artists and musicians that recorded and or released their music through ITI.

Tom passed away in 2011.  He was a jazz pianist and composer-arranger for many known and unknown artist and “A fixture on the Los Angeles jazz scene, Garvin was “one of our town’s better jazz pianists,” The Times said in 1990.”

Some of his performances included noted jazz vocalists Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee, Lou Rawls and Diane Schuur, and Jack Jones.  And he recorded with other notable musicians including Art Farmer, George Mraz, Michal Urbaniak, Bill Watrous, Phil Woods, and Sy Zentner.

Along with this, he often wrote songs for the Tonight Show Band and many other tunes for TV programs and movies.

Tom’s album, “In Three Dimensions,” featured his big band on one side and his trio on the other and was the first album produced and released on ITI Records in 1983.

Artists who might be on this album, as there were no notes in uncovering the tapes, may include: Dennis F. Parker – bass, Ralph Humphrey – drums, Ron Dunn – drums, Lee Pastora – congas, Trey Henry - bass Sol Gubin – drums, John Heard – bass, Dave Carpenter – bass, Kendal Kay – drums, Peter Donald – drums, George Mraz – bass.

Other albums that he was a band member or wrote music for include: Don Ellis “At Fillmore”, Carmen McRae “Ms. Jazz”, Bill Watrous and the Manhattan Wildlife Refuge “The Tiger of San Pedro”, “Grease” motion picture soundtrack, Don Rader Quintet “Wallflower”, Hiromi Iwasaki “Wish”, Seventh Avenue (another ITI Records release) “Heads Up”, The New Phil Woods Quintet “Integrity”, Nana Simopoulos “Still Waters”, Natalie Cole “Unforgettable”, The Lanny Morgan Quartet “same title”, Jimmy Spencer “Warm... Then... Now... Always”, Stu Phillips “Battlestar Galactica Volume 2: "Lost Planet of the Gods"/ "Gun on Ice Planet Zero", Donatelli “In the Company of Friends”, Sunny Wilkinson “A Gentle Time”, Ruth Price “Lucky to be Me”, Mike Campbell & Tom Garvin “Blackberry Winter”.

In 2015, ITI Released the album “Alone”, which features Tom playing solo piano.

All Tracks composed by Tom Garvin and published by ITI Music Corporation BMI.

Tracks:

1. Teddy Blue

2. Thelony

3. Grass

4. Lightly

5. Talara

6. Fitness A

7. It's Time We Met

8. Butter